Kiran Bedi hails Karnataka cop, says country needs more of her kind

Puducherry, Jul 14 Puducherry Lt Governor Kiran
Bedi today praised the "courage" of a senior Karnataka police
who said AIADMK (Amma) chief V K Sasikala was getting
preferential treatment in Bengaluru central prison.
"We need more officers of the kind of D.Roopa, the?DIG
(Prisons) of Karnataka, to inspire ?younger generation to be
like her," Bedi, herself a former IPS officer, tweeted.
Such officers were not not easy to find these days.
"Those who have the courage to speak and write out the truth
as they see knowing well that they may not get support from
senior quarters," she said.
The DIG also said there was suspicion that senior jail
officials had accepted Rs 2 crore as a bribe to facilitate
special facilities for Sasikala, prompting Chief Minister
Siddaramaiah to order a high-level probe yesterday.
Roopa made the allegations in a report to her superior,
DGP (Prisons) H S Sathyanarayana Rao.
Bedi, credited with ushering in jail reforms during her
career, asked Roopa to "keep going strong wherever you are
posted as the country needs you. You will inspire younger
generation to be like you..."
The Lt Governor said in such a situation, good leadership
welcomes reporting or feedback and makes a joint field visit.
"This helps improve matters."
In her four-page report after visiting the central prison
on July 10, Roopa said a special kitchen was functioning in
the jail here for Sasikala, a convict in a corruption case, in
violation of the rules.
Noting that these allegations were also against the DGP,
she asked Rao to look into them and take "merciless"
disciplinary action against "erroneous officials".
Rao has termed Roopa's charges against him "absolutely
false, baseless and wild" and said he would take legal
recourse against his junior. PTI